Following the company's announcement in August to implement one million robots in the next three years, Focus Taiwan has reported that Hon Hai, the manufacturer's parent company has concurred and decided to move forward with plans to build an "intelligent robotics kingdom" in the Central Taiwan Science Park.

Chairman Terry Gou signed a letter of intent with mayor Jason Hu last Saturday, confirming intentions to build a robot & automation equipkment production plant. Skynet the plant is predicted to make some serious money, with an estimated production-value boost of NT$120 billion (around about $4 billion) and the creation of 2,000 jobs. But the question remains as to how many of these are filled by the robots, and whether they could be programmed for evil. See a video of what's being implemented below.

Scientists Build A Robot That Changes Colour Like A Chameleon

Invisible robots are no longer just science fiction. Researchers from the Guoping Wang of Wuhan University in China have created a robot with the Chameleon-like ability to change colour with its surroundings.

The Fair Labor Association has released its much anticipated report into the conditions of Apple's Foxconn factories in China. This comes after being under fire in recent months about its overseas production of products.

Japanese Create 13-Foot Armed Mech, Controlled By Smartphone

Japanese engineers from Suidobashi Heavy Industries have built a 13-foot-tall, 4.4-tonne mech called 'Kuratas,' which is controllable via iPhone and fires gattling guns when you smile. The company plans to take it into mass production, selling it for the price of $1.35 million (about £860,530).

Botiful: The Social Telepresence Robot

Remote-controlled robots are commonplace, so it'd take a pretty specialised concept for us to pay attention. This is where Botiful comes in: a "social telepresence robot" that can be controlled during a Skype call to move yourself through the world of who you are connected to, making you remotely present from anywhere in the world.

DARPA's most recent creation, the PET-PROTO Robot, has the capability to navigate such obstacles as climbing, jumping, and traversing a wall-to-wall hole in the floor. The company says it's designed to perform complex tasks in "dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments;" but the possibilities of outrunning Skynet are now lower than ever.